Hooking: An MM Hockey Romantic Suspense (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798195928568)

The file said four weeks. Cooperative target. No anticipated complications. The file was wrong.

West Kowalski - twenty-seven, NHL forward, single father - has carried a sealed box for fifteen years. His father left it before disappearing. One instruction: wait for someone to come. He reads every room he enters and moves toward whoever needs something. It's instinct. It's how he ends up crossing a sponsorship event to talk to the man standing alone by the window.

Nikolai Voss is not a sponsorship consultant. He's an operative for the organization West's father betrayed, sent to build trust, locate an archive, and close a fifteen-year file. His system has held for a decade without error - until West notices things no target should notice, and Nikolai starts doing things no operative should do. Remembering a coffee order mentioned once. Carrying a child's drawing in his inside pocket. Not writing any of it in the task record.

When the truth detonates, the family sends a second man - not to the arena, but to a school gate. Nikolai has seventy-two hours. The archive is recoverable. But the cost now includes a five-year-old who handed him something and said it was his, and a man whose trust he destroyed and cannot afford to lose. The math no longer holds. The only move left is one the system was never built to make.

• MM hockey romance
• Operative falls for his target
• Single dad + found family
• Slow burn with a deception that detonates
• Touch-starved hero
• Forced proximity (cover identity, arena access)
• He falls first - and doesn't recognize it
• HEA guaranteed

HOOKING is a full-length MM hockey romantic suspense where the hardest play isn't on the ice - it's trusting the man who was sent to take everything from you. Each book in the Frozen Hearts Series can be read as a standalone.